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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6: The Fruits of Long Endeavors; Atossa's War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The third camp, of ________________ successors, stood at the farthest periphery.
(a) Taylor Barri's.
(b) Thomas Beauverie's.
(c) Theodor Boveri's.
(d) Ted Baylor's.

2. The ______________, led by Rous, claimed that viruses cause cancer, although no such virus had been found in human studies.
(a) Virologists.
(b) Virusists.
(c) Viologists.
(d) Virusologists.

3. "Farber's ____________" details the story of Robert Sandler, the two year old son of a Boston ship worker. The child fell mysteriously ill.
(a) Report.
(b) Institute.
(c) Gauntlet.
(d) Research.

4. By 1950 more than ___________ of the medicines that were in common use had not existed a decade earlier.
(a) One fourth.
(b) Half.
(c) One third.
(d) One tenth.

5. After much investigation Bennett discovered that the patient's blood had an extremely high level of what cells?
(a) Epithelial cells.
(b) Oxyphil cells.
(c) White blood cells.
(d) Red blood cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. The study of _________viruses is discussed.

2. A final report from the panel agreed about what?

3. The cancers being matched to the drugs included breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and ________________.

4. In Spring 2005, Mukherjee had to make a decision. What was this decision?

5. The author discusses the importance of whose "OncoMouse?"

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